Wheel-fender.



PATENTED NOV. 14, 1905.

L. VOGT. WHEEL FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED APE.13.1905.

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PATENTED NOV. 14, 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1905.

Application filed April 13, 1905. Serial No. 255,331.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS Voer, a citizen of the United States, residingat Oonneaut, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have inventednew and useful Im rovements in Wheel-Fenders, of which the f lowing is aspecification.

This invention is a wheel-fender having in addition to the main fenderorscoop an auxiliary pivoted fender which is under the control of themotorman and acts to hold upon the main fender the person or obstaclestruck thereby.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved constructionwhereby a person or body struck by the fender will be taken up thereonand held and prevented from rolling off, possibly under the wheels. Thedevices for throwing the body up onto the fender and for holding itthere are under control of the motorman.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1being a side elevation thereof; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal sectionin one position; Fig. 3, a similar section in another position, and Fig.4 atop plan view.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates the car platform,having secured thereto brackets 7, to which are secured the rear ends ofthe side frames 8 of the main fender. Ropes or the like 9 extend acrossbetween the side frames, and similar ropes extend between cross-bars 10at the front and rear ends of the side frames 8, said ropes forming thenetting of the fender.

To the front ends of the bars 8 of the main fender is pivoted a scoop orfront fender-section formed of side bars 11 and cross-bars 12 with slats13 extending between the cross bars. At the extreme front end of thisscoop is a roller 14, adapted to run close to or in contact with theground.

An auxiliary or upper fender having for its purpose to hold a body onthe main fender is formed of curved side bars 15, pivoted at their lowerends to the bars 8 by a rock-shaft 16, which extends across between thebars. The cross bar 17 connects the upper or front ends of the bars 15,and ropes 18 are stretched across between the bars as well as ropes 19,which extend in a vertical plane at the sides between the bars 8 and thebars 15.

Extending across between the side bars 8 at the rear ends thereof is arock-shaft 20, having two pair of arms 2-1, between which work slottedarms 22, projecting from the rock-shaft 16, on which the upper oraux1liary fender is mounted. Pins 23 extend through the slots in thearms 22 and connect said arms with the arms 21. When the shaft isrocked, the pin-and-slot connection will rock the shaft 16, and thusraise or lower the auxiliary fender, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3.

The rock-shaft 20 has on the under side thereof a depending arm 24,which is connected by a pivot-pin at 2 5 to a thrust-bar 26, the frontend of which is pivoted at 27 to one of the cross-bars 12 of the frontscoop and at its rear end is connected at 28 to a lever 29, whichextends up through an opening in the car-platform in convenient positionto be operated by the motorman. The lever 29 is notched, so that it maybe raised or lowered and engaged at the edge of the hole in thecar-platform to hold the movable fenders at any desired height.

In operation the front fender or scoop is normally down and the upper orauxiliary fender is raised, as indicated in Fig. 2. When a person orobject is struck, the motormanthrows back and down the lever 29. Thisthrusts forward the rod 26 and tilts up the front fender and lifts thebody up upon the main fender between the side bars 8 and the sidenetting 19. By the same action the shaft 20 is rocked and by means ofthe connections above described the upper fender is dropped to grasp orhold the body upon the main fender. By means of the connections shownthe lift of the scoop at the front of the main fender and the drop ofthe auxiliary fender are accomplished by the one movement of themotormans lever.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fender for cars, in combination, a main fender secured to thecar, a tilting scoop hinged to the front end of the main fender,- anauxiliary fender hinged to and extending above the main fender, a leveron the carplatform, and connections between said lever and the scoop andauxiliary fender.

' 2. In a fender for cars, the combination of a main fender, a scoophinged to the front thereof, an upper auxiliary fender hinged to therear thereof,arock-shaft extending across In testimony whereof I havesigned my the main fender and having arms connected name to thisspecification in the presence of to the auxiliary fender, to raise andlower the two subscribingwitnesses. same, a thrust-rod extending underthe main 5 fender and connected to the scoop and the Witnesses:

rock-shaft, and a motorrnans lever connect- GEO. W. TRAVER, ed to thethrust-rod. H. H. TIMBY.

LOUIS VOGT.

